As we do each month we bring you the latest set Miles & More “Meilenschnaeppchen”
discounted
mileage awards! This month we see the return of economy class offers on LOT in addition to economy and business class
options on Lufthansa.
These are good for
travel on LOT until April 1 with bookings allowed until March 31 while Lufthansa is between May 1 and June 15 and must be booked by Jan 31.
You can redeem Miles & More miles for round trip economy class tickets on
LOT from Toronto to Poland for
only 30,000
miles. This is a 50% discount off the
normal Economy Class award ticket price of 60,000 miles and LOT does not charge a lot for additional taxes and fees so this is an ideal redemption to look at!
Here are six of the ten cities you can redeem for on LOT:
You can also choose to redeem 30,000 miles for round-trip flights out of Montreal or Toronto to 94 destinations in Europe on Lufthansa. These will incur higher fees and taxes than the LOT flights but there are a lot more options. Here is an example of some of them:
And for business class this month the options between Montreal and Europe on Lufthansa, the discount
is a bit below 50% as you need to redeem 55,000 miles for round trip
flights that normally cost 105,000 miles.
Example of the business class options:
As we mention every time they have the 50% off economy offer is that you
could in theory get close to amount required to redeem for the tickets
with grabbing a single credit card that has a $120 annual fee! How so?
As we
usually mention in this post you can boost your Miles & More account
with the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express. Currently
the card
comes with a 20,000 Starpoints sign up bonus and when you
convert those
20,000 Starpoints to Miles & More SPG will award you an additional
5,000 miles. Which gives you 25,000 miles. Of course if you spend $5,000
on the card that will easily boost you to the 30,000 miles required. That’s
enough miles to redeem
for one of the economy class tickets in this offer. Of course timing of
getting the card now, spending and getting the points will likely not
happen for Lufthansa but could easily be done for the LOT flights. Need to grab two tickets? You could choose to
get one SPG card for yourself and you for your partner or spouse. If
that’s not your situation and want two tickets for yourself you could
also grab The
Starwood Preferred Guest Business Credit Card from American Express
as it also has 20,000 point sign up bonus and then you
would ultimately be able to have 50,000 Miles & More miles not including spending.